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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've still got one full of burnt anime DVDs

Some of them even have show artwork etched directly on the front of the discs using Lightscribe 😎

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lightscribe set a CD I had burned on fire once. The CD seemed to have some weird coating on the top to make it writeable with markers. Turns out, that shit is flammable when hit with a laser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I wish I still have my lightscribe drive. I used to make such rad labels. Now the blanks are collector items.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Due to enshittification, the audio system in my car has decided to sometimes refuse to connect to my phone since an update some time ago. It refuses to connect, sometimes for weeks. Because of this I have started to carry a CD wallet in the glove compartment again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same here. I had to dig a burner out of an old PC in storage and then go on a hunt for CD-Rs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I have like five of those bigass cylindrical cases of blank CDs and DVDs sitting on some bottom shelf in my office.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My CD wallet is in the pouch behind the drivers seat. Easy to reach behind me while driving to grab the wallet and change the album.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have several of those, plus a like 2x2 foot suitcase for cassette tapes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I definitely had one of those cassette logs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reminds me of those FM transmitters to get phone audio in those old cars. You now also have Bluetooth to FM if the Bluetooth of the car itself is too crappy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I had those, for when you have a crappy car without cd player

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I had one of those too, until it was stolen.

Back in my day your entire music collection could be stolen in an instant.

...up hill, both ways!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This happened to me but with my original Nintendo DS and the case I had containing all my favorite games. Worst thing that happened that year to little me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I still use them for burned Dreamcast games

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I have a four CD wallets with about 200 burnt CDs and DVDs in them .... music, movies, videos, ebooks, backups, data, MP3s, entire wikipedia archives, ISOs and OS install CDs.

All sitting in my closet. Sometimes I drag them out just to see if they all still work and they work just great. It's somehow comforting knowing that if the end of the world arrives, I'll still have a semi reliable data bank of information to keep me entertained until I get murdered for the last few cans of beans in my basement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I had a few of those. Mostly for system ISOs but also for movies. Music didn't take much space as it was all MP3s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mine is still in my car. Havent opened it in years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I feel so sad I must confess To losing my music creating duress I had a folder full of Demento Stolen, all gone, Most only memetoes

You could pack an ipods worth of music in disc form, but once gone, you could wistfully look through all the cases and booklets you still had....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I still have mine in my car and still using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Best friend would pick me up, I'd grab the book, throw on 40 Oz, and roll-up in the back of the book